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Forget Freud and psychotherapy. You want to read dreams, get an MRI and a pattern recognition program for your computer. Researchers have managed what they said was "the world's first decoding" of nighttime visions.

The Chinese character meng, meaning dream, has been named "character of the year" on the mainland, putting poll organisers and much of the public on a collision course over how the word should be interpreted.

In fast-paced Hong Kong, there's one thing that most of us want more of: sleep.

'Many people doze off on their way to work; I know they don't have enough sleep,' says Dr Chung Kai-fai, of the Hong Kong Society of Sleep Medicine, adding that 'enough' ranges from six to 10 hours a night, depending on the person.

Do you know what you want to be? To truly live, is to follow your heart, to realise that you can achieve your dreams.

You have your dream, and you want to live it. Well, to get there, you need to take a few steps along the way. Nobody ever accomplishes their dream by just wishing. You have to work at it a little bit at a time.

If you dream of being on stage and are below the age of 25, this is your last chance to sign up for 'The Stage of Dreams' and show off your musical talents. Download an application form at www.summermusic.hk/yp/stage and follow the instructions to submit your entry.

Everybody has dreams, but dreams don't always come true. This is because people don't work hard enough, or their goals are set too high. The first case requires extra effort, and the second depends on our potential.

Perhaps you did dream, but you can't remember what happened in your dream. But perhaps a dreamhunter caught your dream and took it to the Rainbow Opera. If a dreamhunter steals your dream, it no longer belongs to you. And that is why you can't remember it.

Since being short-sighted is an evolutionary disadvantage, why haven't people evolved to have perfect eyesight? Hundreds of thousands of years ago, when people were mostly hunter-gatherers it would have been a definite disadvantage not to be able to see that angry woolly mammoth stomping towards you.